Rename Monkeypox, please
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Scientists Want To Rename Monkeypox Because It’s ‘Stigmatizing’ To Africans
A group of scientists, mostly hailing from Africa, are calling for the scientific community to rename monkeypox viruses due to concerns that the current geographically-determined names are offensive.
The group of 29 scientists wrote Friday that scientists should rename two monkeypox virus clades — the “West African” clade and the “Congo Basin” clade — to be identified by numbers instead of geographic origin points. The scientists said that, with growing attention on monkeypox caused by outbreaks in the West, the viruses should be renamed in line with best practices within the healthcare industry.
“Given the increasingly rapid communication of, and attention to, the international human MPXV outbreak, it is important to consider an appropriate, non-discriminatory, and non-stigmatizing nomenclature and classification of MPXV clades,” their publication said.
The scientists propose renaming the monkeypox clades to clades 1, 2 and 3, corresponding with the order of detection. Clade 1 would be the formerly-called “Congo Basin” clade, sometimes referred to as the “Central African” clade, and clades 2 and 3 would be the formerly “West African” clade.ttps://dailycaller.com/2022/06/13/monkeypox-racist-africa-congo-basin-west-central-african-disease/?utm_medium=email&pnespid=6bl6ECJVLrERi6aYpCu_TM.S5hSgTol3deHl3LtlpAJmzv1Oq7flemMG7ZwgF3peLgZu_cit0Q
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Sure thing. I suggest we just take out the K.
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Sure thing. I suggest we just take out the K.
@LuFins-Dad said in Rename Monkeypox, please:
Sure thing. I suggest we just take out the K.
Replacing the x with an o might be better, to take Mik's point.
